The Fish Rots From The Head
Dec 8th, 2007 at 8:35 am by Susie
Why should they pay any more attention to the law than the White House?
WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 — White House and Justice Department officials, along with senior members of Congress, advised the Central Intelligence Agency in 2003 against a plan to destroy hundreds of hours of videotapes showing the interrogations of two operatives of Al Qaeda, government officials said Friday.
The chief of the agency’s clandestine service nevertheless ordered their destruction in November 2005, taking the step without notifying even the C.I.A.’s own top lawyer, John A. Rizzo, who was angry at the decision, the officials said.
The disclosures provide new details about what Gen. Michael V. Hayden, the C.I.A. director, has said was a decision “made within C.I.A. itself” to destroy the videotapes. In interviews, members of Congress and former intelligence officials also questioned some aspects of the account General Hayden provided Thursday about when Congress was notified that the tapes had been destroyed.
The White House official was Harriet Miers.
UPDATE: It wasn’t the torture they were covering up.
9/11 + Iraq War is the greatest political power grab
in US history, and the corporate media has essentially
ignored it.
What are they so afraid of?